International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation

The International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC) is a biennial conference organised by the European Language Resources Association with the support of institutions and organisations involved in Natural language processing.

Main trends

The main trends of the recent conferences are:

• Semantics and Knowledge, in all its variations, from annotation of anaphoric, temporal, spatial information, to ontologies and lexicons, to disambiguation, named entities recognition, information extraction, and so on.
• Subjectivity, declined in various nuances: emotions, opinions, sentiments.
• Machine translation and multilinguism.
• Infrastructural initiatives, strategies, national and international projects that are of major interest, as usual inside the LREC community.
• Lexicons and Corpora.
• Tools and systems for text analysis at many levels.
• Dialogue and discourse, with contributions from both the Speech and Text communities.
• Speech and multimodal databases, tools and systems.
• And finally, evaluation and validation methodologies, as a topic per se.

The LREC Map

The biggest innovation of the LREC 2010 Conference was the LREC Map which finds its proper place inside the infrastructural actions. The organizers asked the authors to provide some basic information about all the resources (in a broad sense, i.e. including tools, standards and evaluation packages), either used or created, described in their papers. All these descriptors were then gathered in a global matrix called the LREC Map.
The LREC Map has been then developed for other conferences to form the LRE Map.

History of conferences

* 2012 Istanbul (Turkey) Next edition

• 2010 Valletta (Malta)
• 2008 Marrakech (Morocco)
• 2006 Genoa (Italy)
• 2004 Lisbon (Portugal)
• 2002Las Palmas (Spain)
• 2000 Athens (Greece)
• 1998 Granada (Spain)

External links

• Conference website
• European Language Resources Association web site